Date:         Sat, 18 Dec 2004 15:48:18 -0600
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From:         John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: Frydaye Follyes (sorry I missed it) - but check this out
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Whatever the doctoring of the pictures went on,  I tought the tongue in
cheek caption and the associated pictures were pretty funny.

I have seen first hand such doofus stuff happen

In front of my shop some years ago on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, the
State was upgrading a highway. Lots of belly dumps hauling and dumping
to fill and level the road. Some guy got his belly dump stuck somehow
crosswise the road and it blocked hiway traffice both directions. The
contractor started screaming and shouting, and the truck driver got out,
looked around, reached back inside and got his lunchbox an hardhat, and
walked away, leaving the belly dump sitting in the middle of the
highway. He got in a pickup just a little ways down the road and drove
off, just leaving the belly dump and the contractor to deal with it all.

Like I said....doofus stuff sometimes.

In Alaska I also saw a guy get a D-8 Cat stuck in a permafrost bog where
the insulating top layer of moss and grass had been cleared and the ice
melted underneath. He drove out to do some more scraping and down it
went. By the time they got something in there big enough to get the D-8
out, it had sunk in to the point that only the flat metal top of the cab
was about 6 inches above the mud.

Doofus stuff.

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

ohn Rodgers wrote:

> Sorry I missed The Frydaye Follies, Guys, but check it out!!
>
> http://webpages.charter.net/jhr/
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> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>
>